Late last week, film director Kevin Smith pulled an anti-Silent Bob by unleashing a barrage of HateTweets (Is that a word? No? It should be!) against Southwest Airlines for kicking him off a plane because he was too fat....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/18/the-real-reason-kevin-smith-was-kicked-off-the-plane/Why are many teenagers night owls? New findings by Mariana G. Figueiro, a sleep researcher (apparently, there is such a job) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, show that it's the lack of morning light:Riding in sch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/18/science-explains-the-teenage-night-owl-syndrome/Photo: K. Parkinson/Australian MuseumBack in 2006, we blogged about Mr. Blobby, the ugliest fish ever. Who knew that many years later the same fish caught the attention of mass media. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/18/mr-blobby-the-most-fearful-fish-ever/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGfyxzJacLI][YouTube - Link]The "mockumentary" short film Sign Language is unexpectedly heart-warming. "My workplace is wonderful, and I want to share it.&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/18/sign-language/W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the always entertaining What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is used for?Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section. One guess per c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/18/what-is-it-game-128/Three years ago, someone robbed the home of the Fronterotta family in Gallup, New Mexico, taking money and jewelry. Then last week, the family received a package from the anonymous thief, containing the jewelry, an apol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/three-years-after-burlgary-thief-mails-goods-back-to-owner/Now that sounds like a terribly criminal thing to do, but the creators of this website hope to warn people about the dangers of exposing too much personal information on the Internet: Please Rob Me consists exclus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/please-rob-me-com-lets-burglars-know-when-youre-not-at-home/Are you ready to rock? Well the Vatican's official newspaper, L' Osservatore Romano, is now the source for the latest in the greatest rock music: The list included The Beatles’ “Revo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/vatican-announces-list-of-top-10-rock-albums-of-all-time/Ken Bannister, founder of the International Banana Club Museum, is selling out. The price of the museum has dropped from $45,000 to only $15,000! Before you snap up that bargain, be aware that the museum includes only th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/international-banana-club-museum-for-sale/What Happened in My Birth Year? is a new website by Philipp Lenssen (of Google Blogoscoped fame). The concept is pretty simple: just type in the year of your birth to find out the top selling movies and books, most popul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/what-happened-in-my-birth-year/Photographer Adam Voorhes has a series of sharp pictures showing the internal components of an Etch-a-Sketch, a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol, a frog, and a telephone. Here at Neatorama, we've previously fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/exploded-views-of-everyday-objects/(Video Link) Ted Ingram of Dorset, UK, may be the oldest paperboy in the world at the age of 90. He's been on the job for 68 years and is estimated to have delivered half a million copies of the newspaper over the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/the-oldest-paperboy-in-the-world/New York City has big plans for Coney Island. The Brooklyn neighborhood will soon have new thrill rides and other amusements designed to bring back the glory years when Coney Island was known as "the People's Playground"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/coney-island-comeback/I always have to laugh at the reactions when people discover the awful recipes of the 1950s and 60s. At the time, many women stayed home with their time-saving appliances and and used that spare time to save the mone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/dishes-so-awful-we-had-to-make-them/Charles Hatfield called himself a "moisture accelerator". In 1916, he offered to make rain fall and fill the reservoir for San Diego. Hatfield suceeded to such an extent that the city suffered the worst floods in its h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/hatfield-the-rainmaker-the-man-who-courted-nature/Is it luck or a curse that causes German speed skater Daniela Anschutz-Thoms to finish in fourth place? Not once, not twice, but fifteen times in the Olympics, the World Championships, and the European Champions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/germanys-unluckiest-olympian/Is there something in our brains that make humans see the same geometric patterns during drug use, illness, or near-death experiences? Even pressing on our eyes can induce the same spirals other people see. Research by p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/math-and-hallucinations/Open air theaters are usually associated with the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece but the tradition is still going strong in the windswept but beautiful landscape of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Although it re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/minack-the-coolest-theater-in-the-world/Sayaka Kajita Ganz makes sculptures from recycled materials, and here she's made a dramatic pair of horses from black and white plastic objects. The installation is called Emergence; you can guess which horse is Ni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/emergence-night-wind/King Tut may have brought the image of splendor and wealth to your mind, but the reality was far grimmer for the Egyptian boy king:The report is the first DNA study ever conducted with ancient Egyptian royal mummies....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/poor-king-tut/We're not the only one redesigning our blog. Our pal Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has a snazzy new look (one that fits their name very well, I might add).Check it out: Link | Bathroom Reader Online StoreThis reminds me t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/bathroom-readers-new-website-redesign/(YouTube Link) On Feb. 5th, 1,200 students, staff, and faculty at the University of Alberta played the world's largest game of dodgeball: Although it will be several months before officials from the Guinness...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/worlds-largest-dodgeball-game/Hello everyone! We've been busy rolling out new features for the blog. I'd like to take a couple of minutes to tell you about them: A number of you requested that we make the login process smoother, so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/neatorama-update-february-2010/Neatorama Spotlight, our new wide-format blog, is lucky to have an excerpt from Theo Gray's fantastic book Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home - But Probably Shouldn't. In the book, Theo compiled years of the bes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/mad-science-experiments-by-theo-gray/(Video Link) Animator Rob Carter made this short film which shows the development of Charlotte, North Carolina over two and a half centuries, compressed into nine minutes of papercraft. Buildings appear and move ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/9-minute-history-of-a-city-as-a-pop-up-book/If you're unhappy where you are, you can pick up and move. Thanks to a new study, we now know where all those happy people live. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index asked more than 353,000 Amer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/the-happiest-and-unhappiest-cities-in-america/Joseph Reyes, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is about to find out: he took his daughter to church against the wishes of his ex-wife, who took out a restraining order against him.The two are in a bitter divorce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/can-you-go-to-jail-for-going-to-church/How does the offer of cash and free land sound to you? All that you have to do is live in a small town in North Dakota. Sounds good? Maybe not. Here's the story of Michael Tristani and his family:Tired of crime, traf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/living-in-a-small-town-not-as-good-as-youd-think/Photographer and scientist Miloslav Druckmüller and his team specialize in capturing images of solar eclipses. Pictured above is one photograph that compiles nine images, taken on July 22, 2009 from the Marshall Is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/composite-picture-of-solar-eclipse/In any movie, witnessing a murder will surely lead to a chase scene. In Pivot, the animation is what makes the chase special. Until the ending. Designed and animated by Kevin Megens, Floris Vos, Arno de Grijs, and Andre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/pivot/
